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Fiction is basically a drug. (leminal.space)
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Give pleasure. Alter your consciousness. Are addictive. Are delivered via a small, portable device.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think most anthropologists would agree that storytelling is an innate human activity far older than drug use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Surely drug use is as old as eating. From the first time that you eat a strange berry or funky apple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Funky Apple is my rap name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fair, but there’s no evidence it became a regular part of human culture before the agricultural revolution. Whereas storytelling seems to be an innate social activity, probably as old as language itself.